The complete works of Gerrard Winstanley
By: edited by Thomas N. Corns, Ann Hughes and David Loewenstein
Contributors: Corns, Thomas N.; Hughes, Ann, 1951-; Loewenstein, David
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199576067
Description: This fully annotated edition establishes Gerrard Winstanley (1609-76) as a leading English prose writer and the foremost radical thinker of 17th-century England. It makes a major contribution to scholarship on English Civil War politics, religion, and literary culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Biographical introduction; title: The Diggers; title: Winstanley's political and social thought; title: Winstanley's religion; title: Winstanley and the Bible; title: Literary achievement; title: Textual introduction. The works: The breaking of the day of God; title: The mysterie of God, concerning the whole creation, mankinde; title: The saints paradice: or, The fathers teaching the only satisfaction to waiting souls; title: Truth lifting up his head above scandals; title: The new law of righteousness.